Pan-skipping device for cracker-cutting machines.



No. 863,349. PATENTED AUG. 13, 1907. A. BLBILE.

PAN SKIPPING DEVICE FOR ORAGKER CUTTING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 4, 1907.

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PAN-SKIPPING DEVICE FOiR- CRAGKEB-CUTTING MACHINES. I

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 13,1907.

Application filed February 4, 1907. Serial No. 355.635.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBER'r BLEILE, a citizen of the United States, residing in Dayton, county of Montgomery; and State of Ohioghave invented new and useful Improvements in Pan-SkippingsDevices for Cra'cker-(h itting-M'zwhi mes, of which the following is a full clear, ande'xact description, referenc'e'bein'g had to the accompanying drawings, forming'p'art of this specification.

My invention relates to devices for thedel-iverycf bakersgoods shaped in'molds or cut' from a continuous 1 sheet of dough, --or otherwise formed,- in which the cut dough is delivered continuously into pans, in which it I is desired to give an intermittent accelerated movep by the machine.

ment to the traveling carriage, upon which the pans for the reception of the goods are presented to the machine.

-It is customary in cracker and the like machines-t0 deliver continuously the goods cut from the sheet of dough by the cutters or dies, or otherwise formed, to the pans, which are presented in succession at the point of delivery, and these pansare usually carriedto and away from the delivery point by traveling belts or aprons. As the goods are delivered continuously, if the pans are fed with uniform speed, the material would be deposited not only in the pans, but on the edges, and in the space between the pans. It is, therefore, necessary to provide some means to accelerate the movement of the pans as each is filled, so that the material shall only be deposited in the proper position on the pans, otherwise all the material that is improperly distributed has to be gathered as scrap, and again mixed with the mass 'ofdough to be again formed into sheets, and cut 'It is the purpose of my invention to provide a simple,

cheap and effective construction to obtain this accelerafter particularly pointed out and claimed,' whereby.

the device may be readily and easily adjusted for any i desired speed of thecracker delivery mechanism, and in which the amount of skip or acceleration may be also readily adjusted-for the space between the pans and other conditions that may arise.

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elevation of same and Fig. 3 is a end of the cracker cutting machine, as the construction of machine for cutting the material inthe proper shapes y from a sheet of dough forms no part of.my .p :esent in- In the drawings 11 represents V or continuation of the framework of [the cracker inachine, suitably braced and held together by cross braces;

the side standards 2 and 3 are shaftsjqumaled oneat each endof this portion of the frame work, and the shaft 2 carrieskeyed theretothe pair of sprocket wheels-4, 4 spaced a convenient distance apart, while 5, 5 are similar sprockets either loosely mounted on or keyed to turn with the shaft 3, and spaced the same distance apart as the sprockets 4, 4. These sprocket wheels carry the sprocket chains 6, 6, which are provided at proper. intervals with lugs 7, and the shallow pans 88 forholding the goods are placed to fest at each end on the chains 6'6 to be carried forward away from themachine by the lugs77 as the sprocket wheels are actuated to feed the chains. Instead 'of merely resting the shallow pans on the sprocket chains, an apron or'other flexible carrier may be provided between the sprocket chains, or other driving means-and the pans rested on the apron, and carried forward by lugs or strips. I

10 is a ratchet wheel mountedon the shaft 2, and engaged by a pawl sf dog 9, which is mounted on the pulley 11, driven bybelt or 'train of gears from the main driving power of the machine, by means of which pawl and ratchet the shaft 2 andthe pair of sprockets transverse 44 be driven at any desired speed to actuate the sprocket chains for feeding the pans 8-8 in succession to and away from the delivery end of the machine. 12 is a shaft journaledacross the lower portion of the framework carrying the pulley 13, and this shaft and pulley is drivenby any suitable gearing or pulley connection with the main driving mechanism of the machine, or other driving power, at a greater rate of speed ment with the sprocket chains 6, so that with each y rotation of the sprocket 15, the pans will have moved the distance between their centers. v

v Mounted on the shaft 14 insuch a position as to engage the face. of the pulley 13 is the acceleratingdevice whi'ch con'sists of a plurality of hubs 16, 17 and 18,

\ whichare split and arranged to be held andftigh'tened v on the shaft 14 by the set screws 19,"and each'of these g hubs provided with-an arm 20, 21, and 22, segmental bearing face 23, 24 andI25. The bearing face 23 is'made the entire width of thehub's, and corr espends with the width of the face of the pulley 13.

, The ac celerating device is so mounted: onthe shaft 1 that with each rotation of the shaft the faces of the devices will come in contactwith the face of the pulley 13, and by this frictional -contact the nastier the device is in contact with- .the pulley 13'. The device "shaft 14, and -of the sprocke t 'lf'rwilll beaccelerated,

and-the sprocket chains thus be accelerated l in their movement during the; time the accelerating 1 is so adjusted on the shslft 14, that th'ecominencement of the accelerated movement shall occur just before the rear edge of the pans pass the deliver point of the material from the cracker machine.- In the drawings I have shown the end of a belt or apr'on 26 for thus delivering the cut crackers continuouslyto the pans.

The face 23 of the accelerating device is made the full width of the pulley face in order to insure the friction clutch between the parts, and the length of time this clutch shall continue can be very readily and easily adjusted by the set screws 27 to correspond withthe space between the rear edge of one pan and the front edge of the next succeeding pan.

j 1 In a cracker machine, the combination, with an end- I less carrier for presenting pans in succession to the machine, of two rotatin'g'members, one in communication with said endless carrier, and the other driven independently at a higher-rate of speed,'segmental contact piece on the carrier rotating member, contacting with the independent rotary member, with each rotation of the carrler member to accelerate the speed of the endless carrier.

, 2. In a cracker machine, the combination, with an endless carrier for presenting pans in succession to the machine, of'two rotating members, one in communication with said endless carrier, and the vother driven independently at a higher rate of speed, segmental contact piece on the carrier rotating member, comprising a plurality of con tact faces adjustable with reference to each other to i n-.

crease or diminish the length of the segment, said contact v piece contacting with the independent rotary member with each rotation of the carrier member.

3. In a cracker machine, the combination, with an endless carrier for presenting pans in succession to the machine, of two rotating members, one having a circumference equal to the distance between the centers of successive pans on said endless carrier, anddriven circumferentially by said carrier, and the otherrotarymember driven independently'at a higher rate of speed, with clutch intermediate said .rotary members, whereby the speed of the'endless carrier may-be intermittently accelerated.

4. In a cracker-machine, the combination, with an endless carrier comprising sprocket chains and sprocket wheels for driving same to present pans in succession to the machine, of a sprocket wheel whose circumference is equal to the distance between the centers of successive pan's on said carrier, in engagementwith said sprocket chains, and a pulley driven independently at a higher rate of speed than I said sprocket, said sprocket carrying a segmental face to contact with said pulley with each sprocket rotation whereby the speed of the sprocket and endless carrier may be accelerated.

ALBERT BLE ILE.

' Witnesses Q Jnsarrrw. Gnrzes,

WESTON GBEE N. 

